The Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education promotes — through programs and services — an academic, cultural and social environment
that provides equity, social justice and academic success for all members of the De
Anza College campus community. It supports the district and college missions, which
consider diversity an essential component of student education in the 21st century.

The California History Center at De Anza promotes the active study of civil liberties and democratic values, as informed by
local and regional history and related studies, through the center's Audrey Edna Butcher Civil Liberties Education Initiative. This initiative takes inspiration from lessons learned from the World War II mass
incarceration of Japanese Americans and subsequent campaign to win redress for this
historic violation of civil liberties and rights.